wow this is so cool!awesome idea!thanx so much 4 sharing with us!

thanx a lot!!! i luved it!!!

Awesome idea!
I guess it means it helps to place any placable objects on certain surface slot?

I don't understand any of the technical stuff about slots & how things become slottable, so please forgive this dumb question.

Will houses in which this 'tool' has been used, then packaged, uploaded and subsequently downloaded still have everything placed just like it was at packaging? Does the tool have to be part of the upload package? From your description of it deleting itself, I wouldn't expect it to be picked up automatically in the lot packaging. I would expect it to require manual adding to the upload file. (Which is okay. Lot builders are accustomed to doing a lot of hand adding & deleting.)

Final question (not so dumb), what is your policy on sharing in uploaded lots?

to Ailias and bluetexasbonnie,

Yes, this "endtable" can make any endtable-placeable objects to become IN ADDITION placeable on coffee tables and decorative slots, but only those that can already be placed on endtables (otherwise you can't operate; counterexamples: the Maxis game console, kitchen appliances) AND have gone through the instructions. Once the transformation is done it'll be saved with the lot, and you DON'T need to include this transformer to keep the effect (but if the object features "self-protection" which rewrites the modification, the only thing that helps is to override its BHAV--but I don't think such object exists yet).

I won't put a limiting policy on this object on sharing in uploaded lots--you can use it whichever way you want, even modify it, but just keep the credit. Anyway since it deletes itself in Live mode it's not that necessary to include it in uploaded lots. As a good habit, you should remove any transformer used before saving and exporting lots--or the lot downloaders not knowing such endtable will have trouble figuring out what that flashy thingy was which vanished immediately :D. But if you do save a lot with the transformer still present, it WILL be packaged.

This is extremely awesome. Thank you!

Thank you! I really appreciate the generousity in allowing builders to share the fruits of your labors.

A truly ingenious idea. Well done. This should be featured. Thanks.

How is this different from other 'one more slot' items that can be downloaded here or from other sites?
I'm a sucker for clutter so the more the better...

This is an interesting alternative to the One More Slot Packages (OMSPs) by JohnBrehaut1 and ariffrazalin. The big advantage of this approach is that successfully placed objects can be uploaded within a lot package as is without including an OMSP. A disadvantage is that unlike the OMSPs, Sims would not be able to use the Transformer during game play for placing objects such as books, newspapers and magazines - but of course this limitation could be an asset at times also.

I suspect that I will prefer to use the OMSPs because I find them so flexible. However, I admire this ingenious approach - thank you netmicro.

Hmm, I think I'll download this and give it a go. Thanks!
I remember the first time I noticed some dressers allowed object on top of them but I think the dresser I discovered this on was floored. Any object I placed on the dresser sank into the surface rather than sitting on top. I wonder if that was anything to do with the weighting of objects that you mention?

Great job, and thank you for sharing it.

In fact I do have some downloaded dressers which have 3 decorative slots as inherited (cloned) from Maxis 3-slot dressers, but the mesher changed the model and thus the height of the object, and didn't modify the slot locations. As a consequence decorative objects will "sink" into the surface.

As long as the object is placed on/in the dresser, it's "slotted" and the weight parameter is either met or ignored. Otherwise it goes straight on the floor; you can move the dresser away and find the object. There will NEVER be the cases where objects are "too heavy" and AS A RESULT sunk into the container.

Yes, I personally use OMSP too. But I designed this Transformer solely because I have been trying to put objects of my choice onto dressers (of various heights--no OMSP fits any of the dressers at least as far as I know) and suffered from a very limited set of objects.

This transformer is for designers to decorate the interior only and during the gameplay the decorations should do nothing (some of them will emit some scent or drug or whatever to boost motives :D). It's not really an "alternative" if one considers the usages of the OMSP and the Transformer. Of course I admit OMSP is more useful :D

Ingenious ! In combination with the OMPs, it offers the opportunity to customise the game in our way. Thanks.

Awesome and amazing, thanks a lot.

Ah yes, good point about the dressers! I have had success with the OMSPs and one or two of the dressers, because I can remember using OMSPs to put hairbrushes and cosmetics on a dresser. I can't tell you which dresser and OMSP combinations worked just now because I'm away from my home computer. But I can see that this package would be very useful for dressers.

its an awesome idea.

Very ingenious! Including the idea of a temporary object to be used as transformer, and then deletes itself. Bravo!

It that case it was a MAXIS error then as the dresser I discovered it on was a MAXIS object that shipped with one of the expansion packs.


And to keep this on topic: I'm very glad I chose to download this as I've been using it a fair bit. Thanks again.

Excellent! Thanks! :D

I can't believe I've just come across this! Why isn't it on the first page? I use the OSMPs all the time but they do not always suit every application. I can't wait to try your ingenious tool to see if it fills in those holes! Thanks!!!

Awesome I'm glad LordDarcy pointed us over here. I can't wait because there are so many small objects I have wanted to use all over my houses, Thanks

Great idea! Thank you!